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What Are Doctors For?
Volume 81, Number 1

Introduction: What Are Doctors For?
The most recent phase in the evolution of the physician’s role
may prove to be the most problematic.
by William Ira Bennett

The Machine in the Garden
An increasingly sticky bureaucracy often paralyzes doctors
as they struggle to preserve their healing role.
by Christopher Crenner

Ritual Healing
What can traditional healers teach Western physicians?
by Timothy Ferris

In Good Company
As stresses on the health care system grow, physicians are finding
they don’t have to face them alone.
by Mitchell T. Rabkin

    Sidebar: Grudging a Nurse
     Why doesn’t Harvard have a nursing school?
     by Mitchell T. Rabkin

Terminal Care
The strictures in this futuristic fable lead one doctor to a decision
at odds with her time.
by William Ira Bennett

Features

The Dean Counter
HMS alumni are making their mark as leaders of the nation’s medical schools.
by Ann Marie Menting

Fighting Chance
A cancer diagnosis stirs a physician to consider her living time
rather than her dying time.
by Bernadine Healy